04/07/2010
The documentary Bonaparte’s Retreat will air again this spring on several public television stations across the United States. This program, based on Patricia Stroud’s The Man Who Had Been King:… READ MORE
Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492-1800 Erik R. Seeman 384 pages | 6 x 9 | 28 b/w Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4229-4 | $45.00 | £29.50 A… READ MORE
Citizens of a Christian Nation: Evangelical Missions and the Problem of Race in the Nineteenth Century Derek Chang 240 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4218-8 |… READ MORE
04/06/2010
Thomas Eakins and the Uses of History Akela Reason 232 pages | 7 x 10 | 74 illus. Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4198-3 | $55.00 | £36.00 The first book-length… READ MORE
04/01/2010
It's a beautiful day (at least in Philadelphia) and the perfect time for the Penn Press Spring Overstock Sale to begin. Hundreds of titles have been marked down by 70… READ MORE
Morality's Muddy Waters: Ethical Quandaries in Modern America George Cotkin 304 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4227-0 | $29.95 | £19.50 George Cotkin looks at diverse… READ MORE
03/29/2010
Sealed with Blood: War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America Sarah J. Purcell 288 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 illus. Cloth 2002 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3660-6 | $49.95 |… READ MORE
"Believe me, people who read Timoney’s book have a treat on their hands," says Tom Wolfe in the foreword to the forthcoming Beat Cop to Top Cop: A Tale of… READ MORE
03/16/2010
Tomorrow two major author events will take place on the University of Pennsylvania Campus. The first deals with human rights in the United States. The second addresses America's urban poverty…. READ MORE
03/15/2010
Popular Ideologies: Mass Culture at Mid-Century Susan Smulyan 208 pages | 6 x 9 | 10 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4020-7 | $35.00 | £23.00 Paper 2010 | ISBN… READ MORE
